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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.

I believe his son is Randy Carson who is a member of the forum here.

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RE: Joe Carson
I have three "45's" of Joe Carson. Two on the Capitol label,& one on the Liberty label.
The ones on Capitol are:
"Love Transfusion",& "Passion And Pride". The label also states,"Promotional Debut Record". The other Capitol,is:"Crazy Dream",
& "Take Me In Your Arms".
The Liberty record is: "Double Life" & "Fort Worth Jail". Sure would like to find an album by "Little Joe". He sure sang good 'n country.

I spoke,on the phone, w/ Randy Carson, several years back. At that time,he was in the 512 (Tx.) area code

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I saw your post and the name Bill Phillips jumped out at me. "Tater", as we knew him sang with my dad's band when I was just a kid and I still have some old tapes somewhere. I was going through some old stuff last year and I found an old Christmas card he sent my dad after he moved to Nashville. I lived and played in Nashville for eight years and never saw him. I'm gonna look him up on my next trip to town. Thanks for the reminder of a great country singer.

If you have a chance, e:mail me, I need to talk to you if you don't mind.

jimbob51@bellsouth.net

Thanks,

Jim

PS J.W. Great post, thanks for letting me borrow it to get this message to Steve

[This message was edited by Jim Hartley on 12 October 2004 at 05:16 PM.]

and i appreciate the nice comments. i was
16 months old when he died and he had just made it even though Hank Thompson signed him at 16 he always wrote his own songs and the were good so the cut them.
but by the time liberty offered him a deal at 26 they had made up there minds to get the big writters like Willie so they could get a hit and boy did they.

the cut was I gotta get drunk and the first ordered sold more than 3 times the amount of a number one record according to Tommy Allsup and Snuff Garret.
after that came a smash called Helpless, then
Double life was climbing the charts in the 20's with a bullet when hi died(i have his last copy of Billboard/he was keeping up with his tunes), all three hits were in a nine month period.

Bear family released 33songs with a 48 page booklet thats pretty cool. And by the way its not out of print, its one of bear family's best sellers.
you can always find a copy on ebay or go to the bear family site. all the stuff is good but because he was so young on the first stuff his tenor voice may have kept some of the tunes from becoming hits.

But when you get the C D and you want to go to solid gold, listen to tracks 16-31 his voice is deep, and much richer than when he was young yet he could hit a high note with such ease it sounds like he could have sang it a couple of keys higher.

Helpless was the biggest radio hit and
Glen Campbell sang harmony and doubled his guitar part to the steel at the same time and it went down on the third take.
i saw buddy emmons at the dallas show and he told me that when my dad hit town after he recorded with him he was his favorite singer but then said just about everybody that heard him he knew that he was there favorite singer..
Im very proud of my father and he's supposed to be in the new Texas Hall of Fame when it opens. I guess we will see, they talk to me about some of his stuff like nudie suits, i wish they could find the one that george jones still owes him money for.
but george paid my mom back by doing two cuts of my dads writing.
If you want a copy and cant find one just let me know and ill get it for you, but they sell about one a week on ebay.

i just bought some and sent some to lloyd green,buddy emmons, and tom brumely.

Darrell Mcall has covered a couple of his songs, What a nice guy.

by the way the last song he ever sang was titled the Last song.

let me know if i can help you find something IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE
randy carson ph 512 335 4151 or randycarson@onebox.com

[This message was edited by Randy Carson on 29 October 2004 at 08:19 AM.]

I got my copy of "Hillbilly Band From Mars" on Amazon just a few weeks ago. They had 6 or 7 available when I ordered mine, so anyone who's interested might want to check Amazon. Absolutely great stuff. If you like traditional country, you'll love this. I've always had the old Liberty LP titled "The Last Song," but I just about wore it out over the years.

George

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chuch doesnt have penny to be buried it would be very much appreiated.

[This message was edited by Randy Carson on 30 October 2004 at 03:29 AM.]

the interesting thing about chuck is when i
worked with him i was just a teenager learning
fiddle and on break he would say hey randy let me show how to play that part or twin to what he was doing. and he would be real cool about it but didnt use a bow just listen for a while fingering it then he show me his fingers and show me my part.
he did the
same for my dads guitar player at the time
of my dads death which is now a great jazz player named JERRY CASE his brother plays piano around dallas ft worth JOHNNY CASE.

its a shame chuck really never got anything great on record, but guys he is one of the greatest. when TOMMY ALLSUP takes the TEXAS PLAYBOYS to do a freebie you know he was as good as they come. matter of fact Tommy told me he was the greatest swing steel player he ever worked with, and that means just almost everybody. SO EVERYBODY THAT HAS HIS HEART thinking about a donation please call number at bottom

FOR CONTRIBUTIONS CALL CHRIS CALDWELL IN LAWTON OK ph 580 250 1010
he's a picker too and he will greatly be of great thanks to you.
Randy

[This message was edited by Randy Carson on 30 October 2004 at 03:15 AM.]